The latest issue of A New Day, the Tull Magazine published by Dave Rees, #109, is out now.

Live reviews of Ian Anderson, Martin Barre and John O'Hara (Premiere of his work The Bargee´s Wife at the Gloucester Cathedral, in August this year). Review of Martin Barre's new CD "Away With Words". Report and photos from Ian Anderson's "Rock God" award at PROG magazine awards bash. Your letters and more.

“After winning the Grammy for best “Hard Rock/Metal” album back in 1988, this seems like an opportunity to justify that strange and misplaced accolade with a new album to celebrate the more forceful, full-on rock credentials which are found in many of my songs over the last 45 years. It’s not an end to the acoustic and gentler moments but more of an emphasis on the louder aggressive flute style which marked me out from the earliest days of Jethro Tull.”

In an exclusive clip from Neil McCormick’s Needle Time, Ian Anderson reveals why he took up the flute.

He explains that his choice of instrument back in 1966 was completely arbitrary. Originally lead guitarist in the blues group that became Tull, Anderson became disheartened when he heard Eric Clapton playing with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.

“You just knew this guy was way ahead of everybody else, me included. And also we were hearing rumours of these other gunslinger guitar people like Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Richie Blackmore. I was fumbling around, relatively speaking,” says Anderson.

So he decided to part company with “a rather battered Fender Stratocaster” which he was struggling to keep up payments on, and find another instrument. The only things he could play were “a little harmonica and a tin whistle”. He returned his guitar to the music store with £60 credit from his hire purchase agreement, “the shiny flute was hanging on the wall, and there was a Shure Unidyne III microphone, and I said ‘I’ll have those two and here’s the guitar back."

Anderson speculates that the guitar would be extremely valuable now. He had acquired it from Lemmy Kilmister, then of Reverend Black And The Rocking Vicars, and later of Hawkwind and Motorhead.

The awaited book about Jethro Tull written by biographer Brian Rabey is available since early October. Rabey tells the story of the band through interviews to many of the musicians (Jeffrey Hammond, Martin Barre, John Evans ... and of course Ian Anderson) who were Tull band members in the 40 years of the british band. The book contains the longest interview Anderson has ever given. Biographer Brian Rabey and Anderson really hit it off, possibly because Brian helped the latter recover his beloved harmonica which was stolen backstage - something Anderson never forgot.

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A NEW DAY, the independent JETHRO TULL magazine, was first published in 1985. The 78 issues published so far have included exclusive and exhaustive interviews with almost every Tull member past and present, along with the usual 'fanzine' essentials such as current and vintage press articles, concert reviews and photos, hopefully tempered with a healthy degree of irreverence and, like it says on the tin, independence.

Published approximately 4-5 times a year. Subscriptions can be bought online athttp://www.anewdaymag.co.uk/default.html , where you will also find details of A New Day Records. The ever expanding catalogue of fine CDs includes many titles by Tull members (Clive Bunker, Mick Abrahams, Martin Barre and Maartin Allcock) and several guest appearances by ex and current Tull members on CDs by artists such as Vikki Clayton, Jackie Lynton and more.